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Navy Ship Built With World Trade Center Steel Sets Sail

USS New York heads from Louisiana to namesake city for official commissioning

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(Newser) – A US Navy ship built using materials from the World Trade Center has left the Louisiana yard where it was built and headed north for its official christening. The USS New York, an amphibious transport ship, features at its bow some 7½ tons of steel deemed still usable after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack on its namesake city; it will be commissioned in a ceremony there Nov. 7, Fox News reports.

The bow stem of the USS New York is made with steel from the World Trade Center.
The bow stem of the USS New York is made with steel from the World Trade Center.   (AP Photo)
Members of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans salute the USS New York today on the Mississippi.
Members of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans salute the USS New York today on the Mississippi.   (US Navy)
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Robert_Dada
Oct 13, 09 8:22 PM CDT
What next? A fleet of paper airplanes made out of the paper used to report that Bin Laden had been planning to hijack planes and use them as weapons long before it actually happened and was subsequently downplayed if not outright ignored? Reply
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Rocket448
Oct 14, 09 2:00 AM CDT
That is dark, Robert, but I appreciate your mood on this.
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cochiserocks
Oct 13, 09 8:48 PM CDT
There's surely some hardcore philosophy papers to be written out of this. What are they going to name the ship? The Oxymoron? Reply
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shonangreg
Oct 13, 09 10:46 PM CDT
It's the USS New York.
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Strega
Oct 13, 09 9:12 PM CDT
never forget Reply
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